Have to agree 100% with what you said. In fact, I could have written as I too had a mild case of the flu about 5 years ago. How mild? Yeah, my nose ran (no jokes please) and I was somewhat sore but I still attended my CS class that night after having gone through a full day of work. 3 days later I was pretty much back to normal.
The only medication I take is the occasional Advil (3 times a year?)
I regularly wash my hands when cooking and throughout the day (no, not compulsively) and use a bleach-based cleaning product to clean counter tops and such. As you geeks should know from watching Alton Brown or CSI, bleach does wonders for killing the buggies.
When people around me complain about being sick and whatnot I just look at them and ask, "What is this sick you talk about?"
Then again, maybe I just have a great immune system.
The first radio broadcast with sufficient power to escape Earths pull was Hitlers speech at the 1936 Olympics in Munich.
What Contact showed was the first television signal which had sufficient power to escape to escape Earths pull. That also happened to be a signal from Hitlers Germany. A rally if I remember correctly.
Considering how many times people on/. are corrected on the proper spelling of the word "you're" and the correct form of "their", "there" and "they're", it is highly doubtful that this person will amend their ways.
Fritos? Bugles is more like it. Or maybe some Jax.
As far as jealousy is concerned, hardly. I can give the guy kudos. He's done a great job. It bothers me not in the least that he's out there racking up the money. I know that I would not qualify to be on the show simply because it's one thing to sit at home and answer compared to actually being there. Just like an armchair quarterback. It's one thing to bitch about the guy throwing an interception but you go out and try to do what he does. Not as easy as it looks, is it? Same thing here.
As far as reading this thread and responding, I was more curious to see how many people would be whining about Kens demise (in whatever fashion) being published. Besides, the original poster was asking what this was all about. I merely gave him the answer he sought.
If those are some of the changes they are HORRIBLE!
The last scene, where Han is pointing at Jabba, is completely pathetic. It looks like Han was put in via PhotoShop. It just doesn't look correct.
Also, the movement of whomever it is in the background so that they are partially obscured by Jabba has the same problem.
In fact, if you look at all the new images it looks like the things were just pasted in rather than being part of the actual scene.
One final point. In the new version Jabbas skin is too shiny. For a planet which has that much dust floating about Jabba would not be that shiny unless he just took a shower before talking to Han.
I'm glad I've never bought any of these new and improved tapes/dvds.
Jeopardy is a tv game show wherein three contestants choose from various categories. Each category has 5 answers. Each choice is actually the answer. The contestant must phrase their answer in the form of a question.
For example, the category might be Space. A contestant chooses the box for $200. The answer as revealed is "The closest natural satellite to Earth". The contestant who buzzes in first would answer, "What is the Moon?" If the contestant is correct they get the money.
Ken has been on Jeopardy since forever (ok, since last season) and has won more money and rounds than any other previous contestant.
However, even though I am from the US I do agree with your sentiment. Who cares? Yes, the guy has an amazing amount of knowledge on a wide range of subjects. Yes, it is a geeky thing to be amazed at this breadth of knowledge. Still, as the local source of trivia in my office I don't care about this guy.
While CNN and others are now posting pictures of the mangled capsule partially buried in the Utah soil, does anyone know if there is footage of the whole event? By that I mean seeing the capsule hurtling through the atmosphere and then impacting?
Would be interesting to see from a physics standpoint how something looks impacting the earth when travelling at high speed.
And please, let's dispense with the "It looks like a blob going SPLUT! How do you think it looks?" comments.
or that mental health patients in Pennsylvania were wheeled to polling places
So business as usual, right?
You think I jest? Maybe I should refresh your memory as to the kinds of people we have. For instance, we have someone who accepted a $200 bill with Bushs face on it as payment.
And if there had been better info sharing between the various organizations, they wouldn't have gotten on the plane. Some of them were overdue on their visas, others wanted for other things.
Why bother with this when the folks in Washington let them through even though the metal detectors went off 3 FUCKING TIMES! Yes, 3 times the metal detectors went off and not once did the airport folks do their jobs and actually search the person and the baggage. For reference.
Also, Atta and one or two others were selected by CAPPS but had nothing overt done to them other than to hold their luggage to ensure they actually got on the plane. See the above link for the same information.
Nowhere does it say that the part about electing the president via an electoral process was added later. In fact, Article II, Section 1, Clauses 2 and 3 lay out how the President is elected.
The 12th Amendment to the Constituion does modify the third paragraph of Article 2 to include voting for a Vice-President as well but it does not change the fact that the electoral college has been around since day one.
Read the third link (.pdf file) from this site about the reason behind the electoral college.
Gore may have lost in Florida but he did receive more votes overall than Bush did.
This shows why, once again, the electoral college should be abolished. Only in this country can you have a leader who received fewer votes than the second place contender.
starts talking about how Gilmore is making a big deal about presenting his ID, remember this: the hijackers of the various planes on 9/11 used their own names. They did not try to hide who they were.
If my name is not on one of the secret lists the government maintains how is showing my ID with my real name going to stop me from doing anything? I'm not a list!
Besides, if I'm going to crash a plane (or car, boat, whatever), or use whatever vehicle as a mobile bomb, into a building or public gathering, why should I care if I use my real name or not? I'll be dead anyway.
To your point, it's Comcast, what do you expect? They have lousy cable service at what I consider an unreasonable price. However, unless you can convince your landlord to let you hookup a satellite connection you're stuck with them.
There was a time when Time Warner was going to try offer some competition but somewhere along the way Comcast made the cost too high even though they were supposed to open their network to others.
Besides, we are talking about Harrisburg. Not Philly or Pittsburgh. Considering it is the state capital you should know by now that things take forever to come around here.
Ever notice in movies/cartoons/whatnot that the most evil female characters are, as a rule, the hottest looking and wear the skimpiest clothes?
For that matter, why do almost all female characters wear skimpy clothes when they go about hacking and slashing?
I'm sure you remember all the pictures of women in their +3 brass string bikinis standing on a small hill fending off hordes of (insert favorite low level creature).
I'm hoping you are being sarcastic because I can assure you considering how much of my tax dollars go to Philly, I don't see much for the effort.
Considering how many times Philly comes begging with hat in hand for the rest of us to bail it out of the problems its created through its own incompetence, backdoor shenanigans and just plain corruption, maybe Philly should consider being its own state so it can soak the rest of the nation as well.
Then again maybe socialism is the way to go in this Commonwealth. After all, it's been taxpayer money which has funded several baseball stadiums, dockyards and other private enterprises.
Considering the budgetary problems that Philadelphia has and its continued reliance on the rest of the Commonwealth to bail it out, one has to wonder why, if it has the ~$10 million to spare to pull this off, why it doesn't use that money to fix its streets, hire more cops, lower taxes, etc.
Or does this mean that once again all the rest of us PAers get to foot the bill?
No, I didn't RTFA. If it's a story about PA, it can't be good.
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Have to agree 100% with what you said. In fact, I could have written as I too had a mild case of the flu about 5 years ago. How mild? Yeah, my nose ran (no jokes please) and I was somewhat sore but I still attended my CS class that night after having gone through a full day of work. 3 days later I was pretty much back to normal.
The only medication I take is the occasional Advil (3 times a year?)
I regularly wash my hands when cooking and throughout the day (no, not compulsively) and use a bleach-based cleaning product to clean counter tops and such. As you geeks should know from watching Alton Brown or CSI, bleach does wonders for killing the buggies.
When people around me complain about being sick and whatnot I just look at them and ask, "What is this sick you talk about?"
Then again, maybe I just have a great immune system.
When you say we are to use our f*cking heads, do you mean people who vote based on someones religious beliefs or people who don't know it's illegal to be paid to vote a certain way?
Yes, I am aware it's not gravity which holds signals back. I was using pull in the general sense.
And yes, I mucked up the radio/tv bit. It was obviously the tv signal.
The first radio broadcast with sufficient power to escape Earths pull was Hitlers speech at the 1936 Olympics in Munich.
What Contact showed was the first television signal which had sufficient power to escape to escape Earths pull. That also happened to be a signal from Hitlers Germany. A rally if I remember correctly.
Bart: Roman numerals?! They never even tried to teach us that in school.... OK, think, Bart. Where have you seen Roman numerals before?
I know: Rocky V. That was the fifth one! So, Rocky 5 [points to V], plus Rocky 2 [points to II], equals Rocky 7 [points to VII], Adrian's Revenge!
Considering how many times people on /. are corrected on the proper spelling of the word "you're" and the correct form of "their", "there" and "they're", it is highly doubtful that this person will amend their ways.
Long live the floppy!
Fritos? Bugles is more like it. Or maybe some Jax.
As far as jealousy is concerned, hardly. I can give the guy kudos. He's done a great job. It bothers me not in the least that he's out there racking up the money. I know that I would not qualify to be on the show simply because it's one thing to sit at home and answer compared to actually being there. Just like an armchair quarterback. It's one thing to bitch about the guy throwing an interception but you go out and try to do what he does. Not as easy as it looks, is it? Same thing here.
As far as reading this thread and responding, I was more curious to see how many people would be whining about Kens demise (in whatever fashion) being published. Besides, the original poster was asking what this was all about. I merely gave him the answer he sought.
The last scene, where Han is pointing at Jabba, is completely pathetic. It looks like Han was put in via PhotoShop. It just doesn't look correct.
Also, the movement of whomever it is in the background so that they are partially obscured by Jabba has the same problem.
In fact, if you look at all the new images it looks like the things were just pasted in rather than being part of the actual scene.
One final point. In the new version Jabbas skin is too shiny. For a planet which has that much dust floating about Jabba would not be that shiny unless he just took a shower before talking to Han.
I'm glad I've never bought any of these new and improved tapes/dvds.
Jeopardy is a tv game show wherein three contestants choose from various categories. Each category has 5 answers. Each choice is actually the answer. The contestant must phrase their answer in the form of a question.
For example, the category might be Space. A contestant chooses the box for $200. The answer as revealed is "The closest natural satellite to Earth". The contestant who buzzes in first would answer, "What is the Moon?" If the contestant is correct they get the money.
Ken has been on Jeopardy since forever (ok, since last season) and has won more money and rounds than any other previous contestant.
However, even though I am from the US I do agree with your sentiment. Who cares? Yes, the guy has an amazing amount of knowledge on a wide range of subjects. Yes, it is a geeky thing to be amazed at this breadth of knowledge. Still, as the local source of trivia in my office I don't care about this guy.
So Fox News is now the "liberal" press?
While CNN and others are now posting pictures of the mangled capsule partially buried in the Utah soil, does anyone know if there is footage of the whole event? By that I mean seeing the capsule hurtling through the atmosphere and then impacting?
Would be interesting to see from a physics standpoint how something looks impacting the earth when travelling at high speed.
And please, let's dispense with the "It looks like a blob going SPLUT! How do you think it looks?" comments.
So business as usual, right?
You think I jest? Maybe I should refresh your memory as to the kinds of people we have. For instance, we have someone who accepted a $200 bill with Bushs face on it as payment.
Why bother with this when the folks in Washington let them through even though the metal detectors went off 3 FUCKING TIMES! Yes, 3 times the metal detectors went off and not once did the airport folks do their jobs and actually search the person and the baggage. For reference.
Also, Atta and one or two others were selected by CAPPS but had nothing overt done to them other than to hold their luggage to ensure they actually got on the plane. See the above link for the same information.
Me thinks you better read the Constitution and the Amendments.
Nowhere does it say that the part about electing the president via an electoral process was added later. In fact, Article II, Section 1, Clauses 2 and 3 lay out how the President is elected.
The 12th Amendment to the Constituion does modify the third paragraph of Article 2 to include voting for a Vice-President as well but it does not change the fact that the electoral college has been around since day one.
Read the third link (.pdf file) from this site about the reason behind the electoral college.
Gore may have lost in Florida but he did receive more votes overall than Bush did.
This shows why, once again, the electoral college should be abolished. Only in this country can you have a leader who received fewer votes than the second place contender.
starts talking about how Gilmore is making a big deal about presenting his ID, remember this: the hijackers of the various planes on 9/11 used their own names. They did not try to hide who they were.
If my name is not on one of the secret lists the government maintains how is showing my ID with my real name going to stop me from doing anything? I'm not a list!
Besides, if I'm going to crash a plane (or car, boat, whatever), or use whatever vehicle as a mobile bomb, into a building or public gathering, why should I care if I use my real name or not? I'll be dead anyway.
Hey Paul, howdy fellow Harrisburger!
To your point, it's Comcast, what do you expect? They have lousy cable service at what I consider an unreasonable price. However, unless you can convince your landlord to let you hookup a satellite connection you're stuck with them.
There was a time when Time Warner was going to try offer some competition but somewhere along the way Comcast made the cost too high even though they were supposed to open their network to others.
Besides, we are talking about Harrisburg. Not Philly or Pittsburgh. Considering it is the state capital you should know by now that things take forever to come around here.
Ever notice in movies/cartoons/whatnot that the most evil female characters are, as a rule, the hottest looking and wear the skimpiest clothes?
For that matter, why do almost all female characters wear skimpy clothes when they go about hacking and slashing?
I'm sure you remember all the pictures of women in their +3 brass string bikinis standing on a small hill fending off hordes of (insert favorite low level creature).
You are also forgetting:
1) your (should be you're)
2) than (instead of then)
3) there (routinely mixed with their and/or they're)
Look at the comment below your original post to see a violation of 1.
I'm hoping you are being sarcastic because I can assure you considering how much of my tax dollars go to Philly, I don't see much for the effort.
Considering how many times Philly comes begging with hat in hand for the rest of us to bail it out of the problems its created through its own incompetence, backdoor shenanigans and just plain corruption, maybe Philly should consider being its own state so it can soak the rest of the nation as well.
Then again maybe socialism is the way to go in this Commonwealth. After all, it's been taxpayer money which has funded several baseball stadiums, dockyards and other private enterprises.
Considering the budgetary problems that Philadelphia has and its continued reliance on the rest of the Commonwealth to bail it out, one has to wonder why, if it has the ~$10 million to spare to pull this off, why it doesn't use that money to fix its streets, hire more cops, lower taxes, etc.
Or does this mean that once again all the rest of us PAers get to foot the bill?
No, I didn't RTFA. If it's a story about PA, it can't be good.
NOT WORK SAFE!
NOT WORK SAFE!
NOT WORK SAFE!
Gah! And I here I thought I wouldn't be so stupid as to not realize what kind of link that would be.
(pounds head on desk repeatedly)
(no one notices since it's part of my job requirement)
Er, can someone fill me in as to what this is all about?
Damn you! Damn you all to hell!
:)
You beat me to the punchline.